Over the years, one thing has been very hard to grasp for some people: the fact that people want smartphones with 4.0"+ screens. These 'some people' seem to believe that because Apple chose a 3.5" display, any display size that isn't 3.5" is wrong. Keep that in mind when you read Samsung's latest little communiqué: the Korean giant has sold (not shipped, sold) more than 5 million Galaxy Notes. Which has a 5.3" screen.

Yes, but what I'm saying is people want a smaller tablet that can make calls, not a larger phone. From a consumer perspective that may not be all that different but if you are a tablet maker it is a very important message.

I spent three hours on a train the other day, reading some documentation on an iPad, and it was a really awkward experience because it was far too heavy. I would easily have traded it for a tablet with a little smaller screen in return for less weight. In my experience 7"-8" tablets give the right trade off between weight, screen size and battery life.

It depends on how you hold it I guess. With no support I have no doubt it will get heavy.

Then again, I think a tablet needs to have a big screen. The smaller a tablet screen to less advantage it has over a mobile phone.

I mostly use my iPad art home and sometimes at work. Apart from holidays I never take it anywhere else, because it's to cumbersome to carry it around without having a specific reason to do so. When I'm waiting somewhere my iPhone is fine to kill time.